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Vendor:Knopf
The Lives of Lucian Freud (2-volume set)
William Feaver Hardcover | 1238 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2019 | 9780525657521 & 9780525657668 Illustrations: 17 colour and 41 b/w Volume I: The Restless Years (1922-1968) Volume II: Fame (1968-2011) has eight pages of colour images. PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by...- £35.00
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Calder (2-volume set)
Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940) Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976) Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival...- £40.00
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Richard Avedon: What Becomes a Legend Most - A Biography
Philip Gefter Softcover | 13.49 x 3.89 x 20.32 cm | 688 pp Harper Collins | 2024 | 9780062442741 This is the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter. In his acclaimed portraits,...- £5.00
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Judith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and Work
Hardcover | 22.6 x 2.2 x 28.6 cm | 176 pp Harper Collins | 2023 | 9780007513215 A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith...- £12.50
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Renoir: An Intimate Biography
Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575 The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...- £15.00
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Vendor:ACC Art Books
Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties
Angela S. Jones & Vern G. Swanson Hardcover | 24.97 x 2.72 x 29.26 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2020 | 9781788840842 Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before...- £17.50
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time (Softcover edition)
Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....- £5.00
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Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art
Ruth Brandon Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.79 x 20.96 cm | 352 pp Pegasus | 2022 | 9781643138619 In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two...- £10.00
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Lowry at Home: Clive Arrowsmith
Hardcover | 20.02 x 1.5 x 23.65 cm | 80pp ACC | 2017 | 9781851498659 On two cold grey days in 1966, LS Lowry was joined by a young photographer on one of his first assignments for Nova Magazine. Clive Arrowsmith had been commissioned to photograph Lowry...- £10.00
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Debbie Harry: Face It
Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.1 x 24 cm | 368 pp Harper Collins | 2019 | 9780008229429 Debbie Harry is the international ambassador of New York City cool. Best known as the face of Blondie, Debbie Harry and her cofounder, Chris Stein, brought the...- £10.00
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Vendor:Arcadia Books
The Story of Edvard Munch
Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...- £7.50
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Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014
Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777 This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...- £12.50
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (Non-mint)
Softcover | 13.97 x 3.81 x 20.96 cm | 528 pp Back Bay | 2015 | 9780316196819 Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who have...- £7.50
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Simon Napier-Bell: Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom - Lessons from a Dissolute Life
Simon Napier-Bell Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm | 336 pp Unbound | 2022 | 9781800181892 Simon Napier-Bell has been a composer, songwriter, record producer and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!. Sour Mouth, Sweet...- £10.00
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Man Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne County
Softcover | 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 272 pp Serpent's Tail | 2021 | 9781788166539 'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up'. Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne County moved to New York and became part of the 60s...- £6.50
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams
Hardcover | 21.59 x 3 x 30.48 cm | 336 pp Unbound | 2023 | 9781800182684 When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin...- £15.00
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Vendor:Museum Of Fine Arts Boston
Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare
Alice Goldfarb Marquis Hardcover | 16.21 x 2.84 x 23.42 cm | 240 pp Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 2002 | 9780878466443 Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in...- £12.00
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Chuck Close: Life
Christopher Finch Hardcover | 18.5 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791336770 For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture...- £12.00
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An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
Peter Salmon Hardcover | 14.58 x 2.44 x 21.64 cm | 320 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781788732802 Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and foreboding reputation across modern philosophy? For some he is the source of the crisis...- £7.00
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Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
Chris Frantz Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.38 x 24.23 cm | 384 pp St. Martin's Press | 2020 | 9781250209221 One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead...- £12.50
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